{"id":93186,"date":"2025-10-31T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=93186"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:42:10","slug":"give-peace-a-chance-we-speak-with-staunch-moderates-about-latest-release-bigfoots-football-live-and-their-wider-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2025\/10\/give-peace-a-chance-we-speak-with-staunch-moderates-about-latest-release-bigfoots-football-live-and-their-wider-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Peace A Chance: We Speak With Staunch Moderates About Latest Release, ‘Bigfoot’s Football Live’, And Their Wider Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following on from Staunch Moderates<\/a>‘ latest release, ‘Bigfoot’s Football Live<\/a>‘, we spoke with the collective about the track and the message behind everything they do.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

‘Bigfoot\u2019s Football Live’ is part sports anthem, part cultural message. When did you first realize football was the right stage for this story?
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Let\u2019s go back to how and why we created Bigfoot’s Football in the first place. You see, first, a Bigfoot named \u201cStaunch\u201d became our Staunch Moderates Intellectual Movement mascot.\u00a0 (Like the Bigfoot of the country, all moderates!) It kind of just happened to us, coming from a taxidermy Bigfoot mask for sale off a restaurant wall.\u00a0 I bought the mask.\u00a0 It made it onto my podcast set and became our mascot.\u00a0 After creating and manufacturing a Bigfoot costume around said mask, which took about six months, we used said costume in our marches, concerts & productions.\u00a0 We found we were in Bigfoot’s business.\u00a0 Being NFL football fans, why not Bigfoot’s Football for an NFL expansion team or rebranding team?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t this be living the dream?! Living in the era of cancel culture, some team names are not thought of as being politically correct, for reasons x, y, or z. Well, Bigfoot’s Football is politically correct, where we turned the most terrifying folklore character into the coolest being on the planet, Bigfoot DJ, Football & Baseball, Staunch. Being a band, we had to make a Bigfoot’s Football theme song.\u00a0 We did so: all the pomp & circumstance from a football game, Bigfoot growls, Jeff Skunk Baxter lead guitar, cheerleaders crowd noise & all.\u00a0 Of course, we needed to make an accompanying music video.\u00a0 We are in the Intellectual Movement for Peace business.\u00a0 We felt our Bigfoots Football & Baseball tracks were a sensible, fun &\u00a0 alternative way to reach audiences with our Staunch Moderates brand through the U.S.\u2019s two favorite sports, Football & Baseball. To answer your question, it was quite a process!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Knight, Casanova Ace, and DJ Staunch each bring a different flavor. How did you land on that lineup for this track?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, Casanova Ace & I wrote the ‘Bigfoot’s Football Live’ track.\u00a0 He was always our main Staunch Moderates rapper, being the most amazing poet and bringing us a Biggie Smalls-like sound. My part, besides being Executive Producer, is that I grew up going to many games thanks to my Dad, so I would tell Cas what the story was that we were telling, and then he\u2019d put his poetry to it. I\u2019d pick the beat, and we would have a rap song. Now, DJ Staunch, he\u2019s not only the mascot for our movement but also the moniker of our band, \u201cDJ Staunch & the Bigfoots.\u00a0 That\u2019s usually me as the actor in the costume in our concerts and films. Kyle Knight’s position came to fruition because Cas got sick with throat cancer, had to go through chemotherapy & radiation, and went through massive Chemo fog. We thought we lost him! He lost 2\/3 of his body weight and became handicapped, no longer being able to move around or rap like he used to.\u00a0 I will note, though, that he still writes poetry for us and does some rapping, one track we\u2019re first ballot nominated for Song of the Year in the 2026 Grammys, Staunch Moderates News 3′. Man, that Cas is a miracle, I tell yah! Anyways, Kyle stepped in, mostly physically acting for Cas in our \u201dStaunch Moderates Experience Live’ Concert Movie. Kyle does rap in one very meaningful track in our album & movie, though, ‘Inspirations’.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your songs often ride the line between parody and sincerity. With this one, how intentional was it to make people laugh while still pumping them up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interesting question! When we originally designed our Bigfoot, \u201cStaunch,\u201d costume and all, and then later produced Bigfoot’s Football, the music video(s), our intention was not necessarily to be comedic.  Once we did produce the track, all the above, and then cut our music videos together, our Bigfoot(s) did end up having some comedic elements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video feels like a halftime show crossed with a hip-hop concert. What moments from filming stick with you most?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, we ceremonially shot Bigfoot’s Football Music Video on MLK Day, 2022.\u00a0 The year before, we recorded our number one track, ‘Peace’, on MLK Day at Chicago Recording Company.\u00a0 MLK Days have been quite meaningful to us, which goes along with our theme of who and what we are, and intellectual movement for peace!\u00a0 Additionally,\u00a0 to shoot Bigfoot’s Football Music Videos, we set up the biggest green screen set we had ever worked with before.\u00a0 The actual shoot was so much fun, because it was a bit like being a kid again, playing a pickup football game. Our job was to capture all the elements in a game. Acting them out, whether they be: blocking, QB taking a snap, back to pass, making a hand off, kick off, running down the field, it was like being in the game, great fun!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DJ Staunch has become a character in his own right. How did he evolve into such a central part of the Moderates\u2019 identity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, it was quite the process, where the beginning story is told in our Documentary Film, ‘Mission Peace’, available for your viewing pleasure via Amazon & Apple.\u00a0 The story of Bigfoot, \u201cStaunch,\u201d who plays football & baseball on his Bigfoots Football\u00ae & Baseball Teams, and DJ Staunch who is the moniker for our band, \u201cDJ Staunch & the Bigfoots (4 multi-genre hip hop albums in 5 years),\u201d continues to develop on our \u201cStaunch Moderates News YouTube Channel and in our additional feature length films: \u201cStaunch Moderates Experience,\u201d \u201cStaunch moderates Experience Live\u201d & \u201cMission Peace 2\u201d which all have signed distribution deals on and are coming to you soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier projects like ‘The First Realm’ and ‘Mission Peace’ tackled unity and big-picture issues. Do you see this song as a continuation of that mission, just through a more playful lens?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, not so much.  It\u2019s just all fun, Bigfoot’s Football.  It\u2019s part of our Sports Page, so to speak, along with our Bigfoot Baseball & Olympics & Peace tracks, to help lure more audience into the Staunch Moderates realm through sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Moderates don\u2019t just make music – you dive into film, sports, live performance, even cultural dialogue. How do you decide what direction to take next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, we are currently pushing for Education as our next direction, hoping to de-escalate the temperature of the Divide through common sense philosophy & debate, and try to help our country from going into a Civil War. How do we decide what\u2019s next?  It always seems to be the commonsense next right move.  That\u2019s how we decide what\u2019s next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fans seem to treat ‘Bigfoot\u2019s Football Live’ as both a parody and a genuine rallying anthem. Did that reaction surprise you at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing would surprise me in this business! As far as an anthem is concerned, it most certainly was written as a theme song for \u201cBigfoot’s Football,\u201d a proposed NFL Expansion or rebranded team. If you ask me, it\u2019s the best football theme song I\u2019ve ever heard, capturing: the stadium pomp & circumstance, a great beat, rock n roll vibe,  Bigfoots Football story, Bigfoot growls, crowd noise, Skunk Baxter lead guitar, sports announcer, cheerleaders, Kick off, huddle, snap, 1st<\/sup> down, 2nd<\/sup> down, 3rd<\/sup> down, touchdown & endzone celebration.  Go Bigfoots!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking ahead, how do you imagine the next chapter of the Staunch Moderates movement unfolding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned above, Education appears to be the right next step for our movement, Education through Entertainment with leading character, Bigfoot Football\u2019s & DJ Staunch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch the music video for \u2018Bigfoot\u2019s Football Live\u2019 below. Find out more about Staunch Moderates and their music online on their official website<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n